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Originally Posted by jaysay
That's were your talking cobblers, we are actually talking about whats going on today not thousands of years ago, we have come a long way since then, but I can't remember anybody telling Muslims they have to change to christian beliefs, or change their festival of light or what ever its called to placate the christian majority in Britain, but we sure as hell here the word Christmas being changed to winter fest, because of the offence it may cause to other denominations, the only problem being its not the other denominations who are demanding it, its misguided dogooders second guessing, something that does more harm than good
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very much my way or the highway then, I thought the human race had evolved over the last 2000 or so years obviously I was wrong (or is that just another minority race?). However you want to dress it up we are a nation of multiple faiths and beliefs an have been for centuries, Hell even the christians can't agree on what they believe! hence the constant warring over it. As a modern and TOLERANT nation we must accept that change happens therefore schools and multi faith organisations are going to incorporate all religions and beliefs. MOVE WITH THE TIMES PEOPLE no-one is saying if you believe in jesus you can't celebrate it but what IS being said is that in a multi faith environment such as our schools adjustments will be made so no-one is left out and I can't see anything wrong with that!
I remember (and this in part will answer margaret's question) when I was at school ALL school assemblies were aimed at christianity and anyone not of the christian faith was made to stand at the back by the school office and not take part (with the parents agreement of course) in our school we had 1 jehova's witness and that poor girl was the ONLY person singled out, on her own now at the time we (or I at least) used to envy her not having to stand through those damn boring assemblies every morning, but thinking back I feel so sorry for her segregated from the rest of the school, she also couldn't take part in the festivities at christmas, AND THAT MY FRIENDS IS WHAT IS CHANGING. Instead of segregating individuals on a basis of race or faith, make the events inclusive! Here endeth the lesson.